Quotes About Approval

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

I should have thought,' said Fanny after a pause of recollection and exertion, 'that every woman must have felt the possibility of a man's not being approved, not being loved by someone of her sex, at least, let him be ever so generally agreeable. Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain, that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself.

I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love.

Where she feared most to fail, she was most sure of success, for those to whom she endeavored to give pleasure were prepossessed in her favor.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

All have been anxious for the attentions of someone whom they wished to please.

Well, he certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.

Gostar dele! - replicou a sua mãe com um sorriso. - Não consigo sentir nenhum sentimento de aprovação inferior ao amor. - Pode estimá-lo. - Ainda não descobri como separar a estima do amor. Mrs. Dashwood

She liked him too little to care for his approbation.

Well, he certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person. Dear Lizzy!

All around me, grown-up voices called out, Amen! as if the word was a hall pass into Heaven.

She doesn't know," Cate said. "Kellen is a secret. I didn't think my mother would approve." "Why wouldn't your mother approve?" Pugg asked. "It's my job," Kellen said. "I kill people. It pays well, but it's not universally socially acceptable.

I would not be happy to do what I do unless I felt that the large audience wanted it.

Unlike my mother, who was unashamedly delighted when I decided to become an actor, I always feel that my father, had he lived longer, might have been a touch disapproving of some of my career - I think he might have tutted a bit at 'Men Behaving Badly.'

I certainly want people to like my writing, but I know that if I write with the intention of trying to please people, the writing will not be good because it will not be authentic. So, ironically, I have to be willing to write something strange or unlovable in order to write anything truly good.

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

If you drop a channel, you're incredibly unpopular, and if you pass along a rate increase, you're incredibly unpopular.

The newspapers are always reminding the public that I am an unpopular prime minister.

Obama's very unpopular. I don't need a poll to tell me that.

Obamacare itself did not become popular until the middle of 2017, when the risk of repeal was the greatest; for the bulk of 2010 after passage, it was unpopular by double-digit margins.

There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate.

When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined to give it. But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism - you learn this as you go on.